The Littoral Station "ELA" opened to the public in July 1999 at Praia da Aguda, a small fishing village on the Portuguese Atlantic coast, located south of the river Douro estuary in the area of Vila Nova de Gaia.The building was designed by Porto’s architect João Paulo Peixoto and involves:

-a Fishery Museum exhibiting ancient and modern equipment;-an Aquarium displaying the local aquatic fauna and flora;-a Department for Education and Research dedicated to marine ecology, aquaculture and fishery.

sculpture in bronze of the authors of Mike Weber . A tribute to the diver is in front of the building

Step work of architect de Passo de Sousa, in partnership with Eduardo Cabral dos Santos, aimed to renewal and recovery in this zone, located where the cellars of Port Wine, making the most of the river front and a single landscape.

Cais de Gaia - Gaia Quay was distinguished with the prize Tourism - "Use of Public Space ", organised by the Institute of Tourism of Portugal. This award aims to distinguish innovative projects in terms of quality, respect and intervention in public space and integration into its surroundings.